London Scottish (H) – 12/10/2024

0Doncaster Knights

12London Scottish

2:30 pm · October 12, 2024
league

A strong London Scottish team, fed by eight Harlequin’s academy and three Harlequin’s loanees, secure a win over the Knights at Castle Park.

The visitors looked dangerous from the start as they made their way down to the 5m line almost immediately and carried with intent. Jordan Olowofela was quick off the line to intercept a Scottish pass, which gave Doncaster some go-forward.

The Knights continued to work as they won a penalty at the first scrum; Morgan Bunting then placed a nice kick to touch allowing the Knights to attack within 5m. But, Scottish defended well and turned the ball over at the breakdown.

This then gave the visitors momentum to work their way down to the other end of the pitch. They spent many phases fighting to get over the line and eventually Sam Riley found a gap to dive over. The conversion was missed.

The Knights showed some fight to keep the visitors out as Scottish dominated possession for the remainder of the first half but took no more points. A brilliant jackal from Rhys Tait contributed to holding Scottish out. However, errors in attack meant Doncaster were unable to create any home points.

Half time score 0-5.

London Scottish came out firing during the second half as they scored in the 41st minute. They moved the ball quickly down the line to exploit a gap out on the wing as their outside centre, Sean Kerr received the ball back inside to carry it over.

Ex-Doncaster Knights player Alec Lloyd-Seed scored the conversion to add the extra two points.

For the remainder of the second half, Doncaster defended well to restrict Scottish from gaining any more points. However, handling errors and discipline prevented them from utilising any attack they managed to build.

Ollie Fox moved to scrum half at the start of the second half. Fox was awarded Doncaster Knight’s player of the match because he provided quick ball and energy to the Knights.

There were a handful of other notable individual performances, Thom Smith made a great turnover and carried hard. Connor Edwards gained a lot of ground with dominant carries and George Wacokecoke made countless impressive tackles when defending.

The Knights spent the majority of the second half in attack and had roughly eight chances where they came close to the line, but errors meant they weren’t converted into points.

London Scottish defended brilliantly, turning the ball over when defending their try line, three times.

This meant the final score was 0-12.

Team Lineups

Conor Davidson 1 George Cave

Fred Davies 2 Sam Riley

Joe Jones 3 Will Hobson

Ben Murphy (C) 4 Matt Wilkinson

Josh Williams 5 Harry Browne

Thom Smith 6 Zach Carr

Rhys Tait 7 Bailey Ransom (C)

Morgan Strong 8 Tom Marshall

Alex Dolly 9 Lewis Gjaltema

Morgan Bunting 10 Alec Lloyd-Seed

Maliq Holden 11 Roma Zheng

Connor Edwards 12 Ben Waghorn

George Wacokecoke 13 Sean Kerr

Zach Kerr 14 Hayden Hyde

Jordan Olowofela 15 Cam Anderson

Replacements

Ben Chapman 16 Austin Wallis

Jasper McGuire 17 Tom Osborne

Lewis Thiede 18 Ntinga Mpiko

Taniela Ramasibana 19 Alex Wardell

George Roberts 20 Jake Spurway

Archie Smeaton 21 Jonny Law

Ollie Fox 22 Harry Sheppard

Harry Davey 23 Noah Ferdinand

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